Ithaka Vocabulary

Imagery

• A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

• Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

• An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Mood

• A prolonged struggle.

• Events after the climax of a story but before the resolution.

• The atmosphere or pervading tone of something, especially a work of literature.

• academic writing that shows care and appropriate language.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Laestrygonians

• A monster with one large eye in the center of his head, sheep breath, fashionable cave man outfit, bad dental hygiene.

• A Greek goddess with a great hairdo, beautiful robes, enchanting singing voice, deadly wand hidden up her sleeve.

• Half-man, half-bull, the minotaur has roughly human limbs and body, but the head of a bull.

• A tribe of man-eating giants from ancient Greek mythology.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

A member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the center of his forehead.

• Circe

• Siren

• Typhon

• Cyclops

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

God of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses and is considered one of the most bad-tempered, moody and greedy Olympian gods.

• Poseidon

• Zeus

• Athena

• Polyphemus

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

Ithaka

• A poem by C.P. Cavafy.

• Odysseus' home town.

• A Greek island.

• A tourist trap.

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Harbor

• A store that sells tools.

• A place on the coast where vessels may find shelter, especially one protected from rough water.

• A structure extending alongshore or out from the shore into a body of water, to which boats may be moored.

• The solid bony or fleshy part of an animal's tail, excluding the hair.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Mother of Pearl

• Pearl's mom.

• A smooth shining iridescent substance forming the inner layer of the shell of some mollusks, especially oysters and abalones, used in ornamentation.

• Any of a number of bivalve mollusks with rough irregular shells.

• October's birthstone.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Coral

• A hard stony substance secreted by certain marine coelenterates as an external skeleton, typically forming large reefs in warm seas.

• An organic gemstone, like a pearl.

• A transparent precious stone, typically blue, that is a variety of corundum.

• Aprecious stone consisting of a clear and typically colorless crystalline form of pure carbon, the hardest naturally occurring substance.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Amber

• A girl's name.

• A hard translucent fossilized resin produced by extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in color.

• Dinosaur's DNA storage.

• A 311 song.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4